Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-10-22
THRIFTY CIILLAN0S.
THE MOST ENTERPRIsINe OF THE
 sPANIsH-AMERlcAN RACE.

Active and Aggressive Chili-something
 Refreshing in the Way of Patriotism.
 The ChiIlanO Brave to Recklessness.
 The Conquest of Peru.
 The Chillano is the Yankee of South Amer lea; the most active. enterprising, ingenious and thrifty of the Spanish-American race. aggressive, audacious and arrogant, quick to perceive, quick to resent, fierce in disposition, cold blooded, and cruel as a cannibal He dreams of conquest. He has only strip of country along tho Pacific coast, so narrow that there Is scarcely room enough tO write its name upon the map, hemmed in on one side by the eternal snows that crown the COriil- Ieras and on the other by 5000 miles of sea He has been stretching himself nOrthward until he has stolen all the sel coast of Bolivia, with her valuable nitrate deposits, all the gu- nno that belonged to Peru, and contemplates taking actual possession of both those repub- lies soon. He has been reaching Southward by diplomacy, as be did northward by war, and under recent treaty with the Argentine Republic divided Patagonia with that nation. taking to himself the control Of that valuable international highway. the Strait Of Magel- Inn, the unexplorei country between the Andes and the ocean, and thousands of islands along the Pacific coast, whose re- sources are unknown. By securing the strait Chili acquired control of steam navigation m the south Pacific, and has established fort ress at Punta Arenas, by which all vessels must pass.
 Raposing tranpuillv now in the enjoyment Of the newly acquired territory along the Bo- livian and Peruvian border, and deriving ar enormous revenue from the export tax upon nitrate, the ChiIlano couSs smplates the inter nal dissensions Of Peru and waits anxiously for the time when b. can step in as arbitrator and, like the lawyer, take the estate that the heirs are silly enough to quarrel over. lt Is but question of years when not only Peru, but Bolivia, will become a part of Chili, and the aggressive nation will want Co push her eastern boundary back of the Andes and se- cure control of the sources of the Amazon, as she has of the navigation of the strait.
 The ChiIlanOs lead the southern continent and are :he most powerful of all the repub lies in America except our own. Their states men are wise and able, their people are in dustrious and progressive, and have that strength of mind and muscle which is given only to the mon of temperate zones. There Is a strong similarity between the Chillanos ani the Irish. Both have fine same wit and reckless courage, the same love of country and patriotic pride. Wherever a ChillanO goes he carries his opinion that there never was and never can be a better land than that in which he was born; and although he may be a refugee or an exile, he will fight in de- fenSe Of Chili at the drop of the hat. There Is something refreshing in his patriotism, even it it be the most arrogant vanity.
 The ChillanO will cut the throat of a man who will not ceebrate with him the 18th of September, his independence day, and there is a law in the country requiring every house to have a flagstaff, and every flagstaff to bear the national colors on a banner by day and lantern by night, on the anniversaries of the republic. All the schools must Use text books by native authors, all the bands play the compositions of native composers, and visiting opera and concert singers are compelled to vary their performances by in troduCing the songs of the country. It is said that Frenchman can never be donation alized. The same is true of the Chillano.
 As a soldier the Chillano is brave tO reck- lessness, and a sense of fear Is unknown to him. He will not endure a siege, nor can be be made to fight at long range; but as soon as he sees the enemy he fires one vOlley, drops his gun and rushes in with his -curyo.r His endurance Is as great as his courage, and no North American Indian can travel so far with out rest or gO so long without food or water as the Chillano peon, or ~ROtO, as the mixed race is called. As the sCholo' in Peru Is the descendant of tks Spaniards. and the Incas, so is the ~Roto" in Chiii the child of the Spaniari and the Arucanian Indians, the race of giants with which the early explorers re- ported that Patagonia was peOplel--menne of that big-iuess. as Sir Francis Drake re- ported. @that 1t seemed tho trees of the for ests were uprootcd and were moving away" They have the Spanish tenaci.y of purpose, the IRdian endurance and the cruelty of both
 Each soldier, in the mountains of the desert, carries on his breast two buckskIn bags. In one are the leaves of the coca plant, in tke other powdered lime made of the ashes of potato skins The coca is the strongest sort of a tonic, and by chewing it the Chillano soldix can ab5tsiE from food or drink for a week or ten days at a stretch. The Chillano soldier iJ not easily subjected to discipline, and outvandals the vandals in the destruction of property, as the present condi- ton of Peru will prove. He burns and de stroys everything within bis reach that has sheltered an enemy. NO authority cnn re- strain his hand. Tho awful scenes of devns- tatiOh that took place in Peru have nothing Co parallel them in the annals of modern warfare William ElerUy Gurus in Harper's Magazine.